Word: uruguayans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is a description of the work of the late great Uruguayan painter Pedro Figari, one of whose pictures was on view last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Spatially speaking, Figari was only a single small item in a splendiferous show of the Museum's 224 new acquisitions of modern, Latin American art.* No institution has a finer collection of work from south of the border...
...week for Argentina. Her champion football team failed to defeat Uruguay's; worse, her players were booed, assaulted by Uruguayan spectators as "Nazis." A heat wave killed seven people, felled 461 with sunstroke. In Montevideo the Inter-America Hemisphere Defense Committee made public specific instances of Nazi espionage in Argentine territory. Chile broke with the Axis (see above), leaving President Ramón Castillo's government the sole neutral in the Western Hemisphere...
...Uruguay broke diplomatic and commercial relations with the Soviet Union in 1936. . . . Now, however, the situation is completely different. The Soviet Union is playing a preponderant role in the battle against Nazi Germany. . . . Uruguayan people do not understand why we do not maintain diplomatic relations with this country. I cannot see any inconvenience in the reestablishment of relations with the Soviet Union...
With these intriguing words, Falstaffian Dr. Guani pushed on to Washington, where he conferred with State Secretary Hull and other U.S. officials on problems of Uruguayan economy (principally the question of a $10,000,000 loan to finance Uruguayan public works). He left behind him in South America much speculation. The week before, Foreign Minister Gabriel Turbay of Colombia, likewise visiting Washington, had confirmed a report that his nation was negotiating with Russia for an exchange of diplomatic representatives. Venezuela and Ecuador were also considering the step. Russia, unrecognized in Latin America until last autumn (when Cuba and Mexico took...
...Conferred with people ranging from the Uruguayan and Australian envoys to Governor Homer M. Adkins of Arkansas and Mayor Carl F. Zeidler of Milwaukee...